It was named after American astronomer George William Hill.

It lies just to the north-northeast of Carmichael, another renamed satellite crater of Macrobius.

This is a circular, bowl-shaped crater with an inner wall that has a relatively high albedo compared to the surrounding terrain.

The inner walls are symmetrical in form, and slope gently down to the small floor at the midpoint, a surface about one-fourth the diameter of the crater.

This formation is not significantly eroded, and is otherwise indistinguishable from many similar craters on the Moon.